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Aeterna Dei Sapientia §22 — Tolle Lege

Encyclicals (Pre-V2)

Pope John XXIII

Aeterna Dei Sapientia §22

Aeterna Dei Sapientia

²² "Things secular stand on a different basis from things divine, and there can be no sure building save on that rock which the Lord has set as the foundation (Matt. 16, 18). He who covets what is not his due, loses what is rightfully his." (19)

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Source: Aeterna Dei Sapientia (Vatican.va)